Austrian-born Jewish woman Inge Ginsberg (97) survived the Holocaust. She is a journalist and writer by profession, but in the last few years she has distinguished herself as the singer of the metal band Inge & TritoneKings.
Appearing in the Swiss show "I have talent" she talked about her life.
"My greatest talent is not singing. It's survival. I arrived in Switzerland as a refugee in 1942 and then guarded a spy villa in Lugano for the secret service," she said, adding: "It's important to stay active and surround yourself young people and keep trying things you've never done before."
The New York Times did a mini-documentary on Inge in which she admits, "I can't sing. I can't make a melody. Metal works by just saying the words."
She writes poetry and recites her songs over metal tunes in English and German, reports B92.
Inge Ginsberg was born in Vienna in 1922 in a well-to-do Jewish family, but 20 years later, at the height of Nazi rule, their idyll disappears.
Her father fled to England, and her mother gave her jewelry to a friend in exchange for smuggling the rest of the family into Switzerland, when they settled in a refugee camp.
Ginsberg was then guarding the spy mansion of the US Secret Service, set up to spy on the Nazis.
"Freedom is really there. But you have to be strong. To be free, you can't blame anyone for your decisions and you need both shoulders," she said.
Inge later married music composer Otto Kolman and worked in Hollywood for a while before leaving the business because, she says, "it was all fake."
Speaking in a documentary about what others think of her metal ambitions, she responded in this vein:
"Honestly, my dear, I don't care. I don't care."
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